Are the Brits puppets of Uncle Sam
The brits showing their dirty face now that the olympics are over......
Ecuador was due to announce its decision on granting asylum to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Thursday as it slammed Britain for threatening to storm Quito's mission in London to retrieve him.
Assange, an Australian national and former computer hacker, came to global attention after his website published a trove of secret documents that hugely embarrassed several governments, most notably the United States, in 2010.
Ecuador on Wednesday hit out at Britain for threatening to storm its London mission to arrest Assange, while WikiLeaks said such action would be "a hostile and extreme act, which is not proportionate to the circumstances."
Those disclosures were the biggest intelligence leak in US history, but in London the focus was on Britain's right to remove Assange from the embassy, should they wish to do so, and the diplomatic furore that could ensue.
Ecuador's Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino said it would be "unacceptable" for British police to enter the embassy. He noted that his country "has made a decision" on Assange and would announce it in Quito at 7:00 am (1200 GMT).
Patino said Wednesday that Ecuador had received "an express threat in writing" from Britain "that they could storm our embassy if Ecuador does not hand over Julian Assange."
"Ecuador rejects in the strongest terms the explicit threat made in Britain's official communication," Patino told reporters.
"The position taken by the government of Britain is unacceptable, both from the political and the legal point of view," he said, warning that entering the embassy without authorisation "would be a flagrant violation of the Vienna Convention" on diplomatic relations.
Assange took refuge at the embassy on June 19 to avoid extradition to Sweden, which he claims plans to eventually surrender him to US authorities.
Assange's mother and the Spanish former judge Baltasar Garzon, who is helping to represent him, recently travelled to Ecuador to argue on his behalf.
Don't be too hard on the Aussies, anyone living in China's neck of the woods will need a big brother who can stare down the neighborhood bully.
.. and where is Australia where this Julius Asange comes from. Looks like they have already surrendered themselves to the americans. They say He is wanted for rape in Sweeden but does sleeping with prostitutes in Sweeden amount to rape or sex for monetary gain for the women
Its funny how the defenders of democracy and human rights in the USA, UK and the rest of europe are silent on this matter. They all seem to be busy licking up to the americans for their survival. The sweedes are being used in this game and are doing the dirty work for the americans and come out as lickers like the Brits
I think that the UK will always exploit a cheap and easy way to make themselves look good, with the bonus of making the US happy if it is in their interests. He is accused of sex offences which will make the world look at them as a politically demure nation. Not saying it is right but they are of course going to enjoy it.
So its the sweedish gays and the british puppets trying to be good to the USA. I thought the USA, UK and Sweeden were free and democratic countries but here they are behaving worse then China and the russians and even worse then the Iranians and north koreans
no britex:
nihil ausus nihil lucratus
Qui tacet consentire videtur, ubi loqui debuit ac potuit.
oh yes they are and they have always been ! they pushed them to an unfair war in Iraq .
Your information is out of date. Britain is no longer the puppet of US. It is more likely the puppet of the EU nowadays.
Good one. Actually we were holding our own. It was the attack on Pearl Harbour which brought the Americans in :O)
I don't believe Britain is a puppet of any other country, however, being saved from annihilation by Uncle Sam during WW2 comes at a price.
No the Brits are not puppets of the US, the Swedes are, they started this informing that they might agree to the US having Assange sent to there for procecution.
Equador has given him asylum. I do not agree with my government's stance on this, especially the threat to enter the Embassy.
I don't believe that the UK is a puppet of the USA, but I do believe that we tend to go overboard in supporting them.
I guess they are. When your big brother tells you to do something, you don't want to upset him. However this case is about him being extradited to Sweden not the US.